Day: September 10, 2024

A magazine reporter has revealed she was allowed to inspect Donald Trump‘s recently shot at ear during an interview, saying it was ‘normal and incredible and fine’.

A 20-year-old gunman attempted to kill the former president on July 13 at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, only to graze Trump’s ear, which was left bloodied.

New York Magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi made the ear inspection when she profiled Trump in Florida a few weeks after the shooting but couldn’t help remarking upon the condition of Trump’s ear.

Trump tapped the spot where he was shot, which led Nuzzi to write: ‘An ear had never appeared to have gone through less’. 

‘The particular spot that he identified with his tap was pristine. I scanned carefully the rest of the terrain. It looked normal and incredible and fine’, she added.

She said in her New York Magazine piece that she could spot a small sliver of Trump’s ear that appeared to have been through the shooting describing the mark in almost doubting terms. 

‘An ear had never appeared to have gone through less. Except there, on the tiniest patch of this tiny sculpture of skin, a minor distortion that resembled not a crucifixion wound but the distant aftermath of a sunburn.’

Trump himself was in a somewhat philosophical mood about his wounds.

‘It’s a railroad track. They didn’t need a stitch. You know, it’s funny. Usually, something like that would be considered a surreal experience, where you sort of don’t realize it, and yet there was no surrealism in this case,’ he told Nuzzi. 

‘I felt immediately that I got hit by a bullet. I also knew it was my ear. It’s amazing. And the ear, as you know, is a big bleeder.’ 

Her words appeared to leave room to for liberals’ deranged conspiracy theories regarding the shooting shortly after it took place. 

YouTuber James Klug interviewed the public at Huntington Beach in California to ask them their views on the assassination attempt on Trump.

‘It was a false flag,’ one man told him. He replied: ‘Somebody died and two people were injured, what do you think about that?’

But the man just responded: ‘False flag.’

Another beachgoer said: ‘I thought it was magnificently staged. It was professionally done. It almost looked real.’

He was asked who it could have been staged by and he responded: ‘By Mr Trump of course.’

The man added that the death and injuries were a ‘small price’. ‘It doesn’t matter to Trump,’ he added. ‘Do you think he cares if people die for him to be elected? 

‘Death doesn’t mean anything to Trump.

‘I think that he walked away alive, perhaps a scratch on his ear. Behind the scenes that was all fabricated. 

‘They put a little scratch on his ear, threw a little blood on his face.’

Klug asked: ‘So you think they planned from 130 yards away to shoot off the corner of his ear?

The man replied: ‘They never shot off the corner of his ear. That was all done by the people hanging around him.’

‘I think this whole thing was staged,’ a third man claimed. ‘It could be [Trump] or the other side trying to make a scene.

‘But the fact it only got his ear and he stood up and said America, come on, it doesn’t feel normal. 

‘To me it looks like it was planned. Bless that soul for dying for this cause. I am so sorry for that person’s family. It’s just a feeling.’ 

Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, fired eight bullets at the crowd, striking Trump’s ear and hitting three rally attendees, one fatally. 

The Secret Service’s counter sniper team took out the shooter. They said the male shooter began firing from an elevated position outside the rally grounds before being killed. Two other people were critically-injured by the gunfire. 

Images on social media show the dead gunman laying on top of a beige building about 300 feet north of the stage where Trump was standing when he was shot.

The gunman opened fire from AGR International, a plastic container manufacturing facility. 

Trump was mid-sentence, saying ‘Take a look at what happened’ when the shots began to ring out shortly before 6pm ET, with terrified screams filling the air as he and onlookers dived to the ground.

In the moments after the shooting, voices could be heard screaming ‘The shooter is down’ as Trump dived to the floor and frightened rallygoers screamed with fear. 

The 45th president was seen ducking down with blood coming from his ear. Trump has since issued a statement on TruthSocial detailing what happened to him.

He wrote: ‘I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin. Much bleeding took place, so I realized what was happening. GOD BLESS AMERICA!’

It had previously been suggested that Trump was struck and injured by a piece of a shattered teleprompter.  

Seconds later, the blood-covered lawmaker pumped his fist in the air to indicate that he was fine, while surrounded by Secret Service agents, before being led away. 

Trump could also be heard repeatedly asking: ‘Let me get my shoes.’  

Realizing their hero was uninjured and that the immediate danger appeared to have passed, the crowd began chanting ‘USA, USA’ as he was rushed away and bundled into a Secret Service SUV. 

The former president quickly moved on from the shooting, appearing at the Republican National Convention’s first night, receiving a hero’s welcome with the ear bandaged.